"that Country, fo long as they fhall conduct them- It is ORDERED, That the faid Petitions do lie on the 66 jects the Bleffings of Chriftianity;" The Petitioners It is ORDERED, That the faid Petition do lie on the Upon reading the Petition of the Inhabitants of the Chefterfield: Borough and Neighbourhood of Chesterfield, whofe Names are thereunto fubfcribed; fetting forth, "That "the Petitioners, deeply impreffed with the Moral De "gradation of the immenfe Population of the British "Dominions in India, beg Leave refpectfully to advert "to a Refolution paffed by The Honorable House "of Commons in the Year 1793, " That it is the pecu"liar and bounden Duty of the Legiflature to promote, by all just and prudent Means, the Interefts and Hap"pinefs of the Inhabitants of the British Dominions in “India; and that for thefe Ends, fuch Measures ought to "be adopted as may gradually tend to their Advancement "in useful Knowledge, and to their Religious and Moral. "Improvement:" That the Petitioners moft cordially concur in the juft and humane Sentiments contained "in the above Refolution; and that the Petitioners, "under a Conviction of the Bleffings and Advantages "of Christian Knowledge, wherever it may be dif"perfed, earneftly implore, that Measures the most "efficient to the Diffemination of Chriftianity through"out the British Dominions in the Eaft, may be "adopted by their Lordships, in the Regulations which "are about to be enacted for the future Government of "India :" Birmingham: Upon reading the Petition of the Perfons whose Names Knarcfbo rough: 66 66 It is ORDERED, That the faid Petition do lie on the 66 Upon reading the Petition of the Inhabitants of Knaref borough and its Vicinity, in the County of York, whose Names are thereunto fubfcribed; fetting forth, "That "the Petitioners view with peculiar Solicitude, the important Matters engaging their Lordships Deliberations "relative to the Renewal of The Eaft India Company's "Charter, but look with Confidence to the Justice and "Wisdom of their Lordfhips to fecure for British "Subjects the most diffufive Benefits of the Indian Trade "which can accord with the effential Welfare of the "Empire: That the Petitioners, as Chriftians and Men, "deeply feel the Moral Degradation into which fo large a Portion of their Fellow Creatures in British India is "funk: That the Petitioners hail the prefent Epoch as "most favorable to discharge the facred Obligation im66 posed by Divine Providence on this Country in having "brought an immenfe Population under British Pro"tection, to difleminate amongst our Indian Fellow Sub It is ORDERED, That the faid Petition do lie on the Upon reading the Petition of certain Inhabitants of New Rofs. New Rofs and its Vicinity, whofe Names are thereunto fubfcribed; fetting forth, "That the Petitioners, im preffed with a grateful Sense of the Justice and Bene"volence of the Imperial Parliament, and recollecting "the Principles which triumphed in the Abolition of "the Slave Trade, and on other important Occafions, "are induced to hope for a favorable Hearing of their "humble but earneft Petition in behalf of the Millions "of their Fellow Creatures whom it hath pleased Divine "Providence to bring into Subjection to the British "Empire in India: With refpect to the Apprehenfions "which fome Perfons entertain of that Empire being "endangered by any Efforts to extend therein the Phillipps' Meffages to H. C. with the 2 preeeding Bills. American Mold Road Neat Enftone Road Bill: Rochdale Meffages to Highways The Question was put, "Whether this Bill fhall It was refolved in the Affirmative. The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall It was refolved in the Affirmative. And Messages were, severally, sent to the House of To carry down the faid Bills, and defire their Concur- The Question was put, "Whether this Bill fhall It was refolved in the Affirmative. Hodie 3 vice lecta eft Billa, intituled, "An Act for continuing the Term and enlarging the Powers of an "Act paffed in the Thirty-fourth Year of the Reign of "His prefent Majefty, for amending and improving the "Road leading from the Town of Rochdale to a Place "called Edenfield, in the Parifh' of Bury, in the County "of Lancafler." Dominus Cancellarius declaravit præfens Parliamen- Adjourn, tum continuandum effe ufque ad et in diem Martis, vicefimum quintum diem inftantis Maii, horâ undecimâ Aurora, Dominis fic decernentibus. Comes Bathurst. PRAYERS. Comes Liverpool. Ds. Boston. Ds. Dynevor. Ds. Walfingham. Ds. Boringdon. Ds. Kenyon. Ds. Rous. After hearing Counsel fully in the Caufe wherein Fitzgibbon It is ORDERED, That the Confideration of the faid Scanlan. The House being informed, "That Richard Stafford Stafford Peer"Cooke was attending, pursuant to the Order of Tuef- age, Cooke day laft;" 66 He was called in; and being heard as to what Progress he had made in substantiating his Claim before The Attorney General; And being withdrawn ; ORDERED, That the faid Richard Stafford Cooke do attend this House again on Tuesday next, and inform the House what Progrefs he hath made in substantiating his Claim before The Attorney General. heard reIpecting. cree, referred Upon reading the Petition of Lawrence Earl of Roffe, E. Roffe Appellant in a Čaufe depending in this Houfe, to which against SterThe Reverend James Sterling Clerk and others are Re-lingeant Appellant's fpondents, which ftands appointed for hearing; fetting Petition to forth, "That by a Decree of the High Court of Chan- ftay Execu cery in Ireland, made in a Caufe wherein the Re- tion of De"fpondents were Plaintiffs, and the above Appellant to Appeal was Defendant, bearing Date the 17th Day of Novem- Come "ber 1812, it was amongst other Things Ordered and "Decreed, That the Refpondents were entitled to the "Sum of £18,744. 45. 7d. with Intereft until paid, "and that unless the Appellant fhould pay the fame in "Six Months from the First of November then Inftant, "that the Refpondents fhould be entitled to have an "Agreement bearing Date the 17th Day of March And Meffages were, feverally, fent to the House of certain Lands in Clonivoe and other Lands therein 1761, in the Pleadings mentioned, for the Sale of Commons, by the former Meffengers; The Question was put, "Whether this Bill fhall It was refolved in the Affirmative. E.Mount tition for peal Come "from that Time, and that the Refpondents fhould have "being, and that in that Cafe, the faid demifed Premifes It is ORDERED, That the faid Petition be referred to the Committee appointed to confider of the Causes in which Prints of the Appellants and Refpondents Cafes, now depending in this House in Matters of Appeal and Writs of Error, have not been delivered, pursuant to the Standing Orders of this Houfe. "Interest in faid Lands; and being thereby enabled to 66 pellant, in order to tender him fuch Renewal Fines "as fhould be found due upon the Foot of faid Cove"nant, and to require from him that Appellant fhould "infert in faid Deeds of Release another Name in the "place of faid William White deceased, the Two other "Lives being then living; and that Refpondent being unexperienced in the neceffary Calculation of Intereft 66 upon fuch Fines, did offer to depofit with faid Sir "Frederick Flood a Sum of Forty Pounds until the fame "fhould be afcertained; and that at the fubfequent "Periods in faid Bill mentioned, he tendered to Ap"pellant Deeds of Renewal of faid Deeds of Release "wherein the Name of William White, the Son of Re"fpondent, was inferted in the place and ftead of faid "William White who had fo died as aforefaid; and that "he had alfo tendered the full amount of the Fines and "Intereft due thereon, together with all Interest due out of faid Lands of Killik and Ballyvondock; but that Appellant, upon the various Pretences in faid Bill particularly mentioned, refufed to execute faid Re"newals; and praying, that Appellant might be decreed to execute two feveral Deeds of Renewal of "faid Lands of Killik and Ballyvondock unto Refpon"dent for and during the Life of William White, the "Son of the Refpondent, upon payment of the Rent, "Fines and Intereft thereupon, and alfo praying general "Relief: On 21st June 1806, the Appellant filed his "Answer to faid Bill, and thereby, among other Things, "infifted that no Application whatever for a Renewal of "faid Leafes was made to him, or, as he believed, to any "Person on his Behalf, until about the Year 1805, being "a Period of Twenty-one Years and upwards after the "Death of faid William White the Ceftuique vie, although "Appellant had made, and caufed to be made, fre 66 Upon reading the Petition of Arthur Earl of Mountnorris against norris, Appellant in a Caufe depending in this House, White, Appellant's Pe- to which James White Efquire is Refpondent, which stands appointed for Hearing; fetting forth, “That on Hearing, re- the 11th Day of February 1806, the Refpondent, by ferred to Ap-the Name of James White Efquire, exhibited his Bill "of Complaint in His Majefty's Court of Exchequer in "Ireland, against the Appellant (to be decreed to Re"newals of the feveral Leafes therein-after mentioned)" "amongst other Things charging that Richard late Earl "of Anglefey deceafed, Appellant's Father, being in and "before the Year 1747 feifed of the Town and Lands "of Killifk and Ballyvondock, in the County of Wexford, "under fome Fee-Farm Grant or competent Estate "therein, did, on or about the 25th Day of March in "the faid Year, by Two feveral Articles of Leafe and "Release of that Date, demife unto Stopford Fielding "the faid Lands of Killik and Ballyvondock, then in his Poffeffion, for the Term of Three Lives therein named, "at the Yearly Rent of Fifty-fix Pounds Sterling for "faid Lands of Killik, and Eighty Pounds yearly "for Ballyvondock, with a Covenant for perpetual Re"newal on Payment of the refpective Renewal Fines "herein-after mentioned; and that in faid Deeds of "Releafe was inferted a Covenant of Renewal; and "alfo a Covenant, "That if it should happen upon the "failure of any Life therein nominated or thereafter to "be nominated, purfuant to the Covenant for perpetual "Renewal therein contained, that faid Stopford Fielding "and his Heirs fhould not pay to the faid Richard "Earl of Anglefey, his Heirs or Affigns, for every Life "fo failing the full and entire Sum of Eight Pounds "Sterling for Killisk, and Twelve Pounds for Ballyvon"dock, over and above the Annual Rent therein referved, "and nominate the Life of fome other Perfon in lieu "thereof, within Twelve Calendar Months after the "Death of fuch Life, that it should be lawful for the faid "Richard Earl of Anglefey, his Heirs and Affigns, to deny and refufe to add or infert any other Life or Lives "other than the Life or Lives which then fhould be in VOL. XLIX. quent Applications to the faid Refpondent, and to "faid Hawtry White, and said James White the Elder, "to come in and pay the Renewal Fines and Intereft, "and the Rents due out of faid Lands; but which 66 Applications they, or any of them, did not think proper to comply with; and by faid Answer Appel"lant infifted, that after fuch a Lapfe of Time, and "faid repeated Demands for faid Renewal Fines by and "on the Part of the Appellant, he the Appellant was "not bound to execute any Renewal of either of faid "Leafes: Refpondent having replied to the Appellant's "faid Answer, Appellant rejoined, and Iffue being "joined, and Witneffes examined, the faid Caufe, on "the 5th February 1808, came on to be heard in faid "Court of Exchequer, when, after hearing the several "Proofs in faid Caufe, and the Arguments of Counsel "on both Sides, the faid Court pronounced a Decree, whereby it was Ordered, Adjudged and Decreed, "That the Refpondent was entitled to a fpecific Exe5 R "cution Stacpoole "cution of the faid Covenants for perpetual Renewal, "faid John Stacpoole, or their Reprefentatives, were made Upon reading the Petition of William Stacpoole of againft Stac- Clabanatinny, in the County of Clare in Ireland, poole, et e Efquire, Appellant in a Caufe depending in this con. Appel- Houfe, to which George Stacpoole Efquire is Refponlant's Petition dent, et e contra, which ftand appointed for Hearing; Day, referred fetting forth, "That on the 24th Day of October to Appeal Comee for a Bye 1792, the Petitioner, as Adminiftrator and only "Child of Barbara Stacpoole, deceafed, who was one "of the next of Kin of John Stacpoole Efquire, deceafed, "filed his Bill in the Court of Chancery in Ireland "against the faid George Stacpoole the Refpondent in "the Original Appeal, and Appellant in the Crofs Ap"peal, to which Bill the reft of the next of Kin of the through the Influence of the faid George Stacpoole "delayed filing their Anfwers, and fuffered Procefs of "Contempt to be entered against them, and from the "general Sufpenfion of Bufinefs in Ireland, in confe"quence of the disturbed State of the Country in the "Years 1798 and 1799, the Petitioner was not able "to bring the faid Caufe to an Hearing until the 11th "Day of March1800, when The Right Honorable Lord "Clare, then Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Decreed, That "it fhould be referred to the Mafter to take an Account "of the Perfonal Eftate of the faid John Stacpoole, into "whofe Hands the fame came, and how applied, and alfo "an Account of his Debts, Legacies and Funeral Ex pences: That the Petitioner proceeded with all due "diligence on the faid Account before the faid Mafter, "but the Petitioner met with the moft litigious Oppofi"tion and Delay from the faid George Stacpooie, who, "taking Advantage of his being out of the Jurifdiction "of the faid Court of Chancery, would not obey any "of the Orders of the faid Court; and it appearing that "the faid George Stacpoole was difpofing of his Eftates in "Ireland, in order to withdraw his Property to Great "Britain, The Right Honorable Lord Redefdale, then "Lord Chancellor, by an Order made the 30th Day of "November 1803, Ordered, That a Sequeftration fhould "iffue against the faid George Stacpoole, which by the "fubfequent Conduct of the faid George Stacpoole was "ordered to be executed against his Eftates, and was " continued during the whole Progrefs of the Caufe, "and until the 1ft Day of February laft: That on the "8th Day of May 1805, the Mafter made his Report, "and thereby reported That the Affets of the faid "John Stacpoole at his Death amounted to the Sum of "£31,473. os. 8d. and that there remained in the "Hands of the faid George Stacpoole, his Adminiftrator, "unaccounted for on the 1ft of May 1805, of the faid "Affets, a principal Sum of £23,140. 15s. 5d. and "that the Intereft thereof at Five per Cent. amounted "to £34,257. 16s. 7d. both making the Sum of "£57,398. 125. and to Two Shares of which the faid "George Stacpoole the Adminiftrator was entitled in his "own Right, and in Right of his Sifter Frances Stac |